The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 42 - 37
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 10 0 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.967% - 5.556%
As % of the Application Development category 6.098% - 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 14
Average salary £35,000 - £22,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
164 86 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 48.66% 55.13% 61.11%
Number of salaries quoted 94 76 150
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Cheshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LINQ across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Chester LINQ Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LINQ across the Chester region.

Chester LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Chester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Chester LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing LINQ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ.

1 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) MVC
3 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 8 (61.54%) MCTS
3 8 (61.54%) TDD
3 8 (61.54%) NUnit
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (61.54%) MCP
3 8 (61.54%) MCAD
3 8 (61.54%) MCSD
3 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
3 8 (61.54%) Kanban
3 8 (61.54%) Rhino Mocks
3 8 (61.54%) Moq
3 8 (61.54%) BDD
3 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC
3 8 (61.54%) Web Application Development
3 8 (61.54%) SQL Server 2012
3 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
5 3 (23.08%) WCF
5 3 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (15.38%) WinForms
6 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing LINQ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
2 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC
2 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 4 (30.77%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) WCF
4 3 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (15.38%) WinForms
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 2 (15.38%) WPF
6 1 (7.692%) jQuery
6 1 (7.692%) XML
6 1 (7.692%) XSLT
6 1 (7.692%) CSS
6 1 (7.692%) HTML
6 1 (7.692%) XHTML
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (61.54%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) NUnit
1 8 (61.54%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (61.54%) Moq
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) MSTest
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Graduate
4 1 (7.692%) Junior
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) MVC
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (61.54%) Kanban
2 8 (61.54%) BDD
2 8 (61.54%) Web Application Development
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) MCTS
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (61.54%) MCP
1 8 (61.54%) MCAD
1 8 (61.54%) MCSD
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
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